A study by Lalita Ramakrishnan, from the University of Cambridge Molecular Immunity Unit based in the LMB, has found that most people who fall seriously ill with tuberculosis do so within 2 years of getting infected, which has implications for public health strategy. More…
Silent tuberculosis is less common than had been widely thought
Yee Lian Chew and Bill Schafer have a video abstract to explain their work on sensitisation in worms
Yee Lian Chew and Bill Schafer, from the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, have made a video abstract to accompany their recent paper in Neuron. They describe how sensory responsiveness in worms is controlled by communication via neuropeptides. More…
Instinctive and learned responses to smells are controlled by a single brain circuit in flies
As well as having instinctive responses to their environment, nearly all animals can learn to associate particular sights, smells, or sounds with rewards or negative consequences. It had been thought that two separate brain centres control these two different types of responses; innate and learned. However, researchers from Greg Jefferis’ group in the LMB’s Neurobiology […]
Children enjoy an afternoon of discussing science books and hands-on experiments with LMB postdocs
A group of 17 children joined postdocs from the LMB and the Department of Biochemistry to review science books, learn more about what it’s really like to be a scientist and try hands-on experiments at the Eddington Postdoc centre in west Cambridge. The event, organised by Juan Rodriguez Molina, a post-doctoral researcher in Lori Passmore’s […]
LMB researchers are taking part in LifeLab with events around Cambridgeshire on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th September
LMB researchers are helping to transform parts of Cambridgeshire into centres of discovery with hands-on, family-friendly activities in shopping centres, cafes and public spaces. A full programme of events in Cambridge and Peterborough can be found on the LifeLab website. Book now! More…
The structure of retromer: a molecular machine packing cargo at the cell’s logistics hub
Internal transport between different cellular compartments is a complicated process requiring formation of transport carriers, and sorting the right cargo into those carriers, for delivery to the correct part of the cell. Retromer is a protein complex that forms transport carriers departing from the cell’s central sorting station, the endosome. The architecture of the complex […]